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We can learn a lot about a person if we know what types of things he or she talks about or comments on the most frequently. There are numerous topics with which Mira Rapp-Hooper is associated, including South China Sea, Beijing, and action. Most recently, Mira Rapp-Hooper has been quoted saying: “Unlike in the Spratlys, where China has created new artificial territory in the last several years, it has effectively controlled the Paracels since 1974. It claims illegal straight baselines around the Paracels, and the fonop may have been contesting these.” in the article U.S. warship in operation near disputed island in South China Sea.

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Unlike in the Spratlys, where China has created new artificial territory in the last several years, it has effectively controlled the Paracels since 1974. It claims illegal straight baselines around the Paracels, and the fonop may have been contesting these.feedback

A blockade - which is what would be required to actually bar access - is an act of war. The Trump administration has begun to draw red lines in Asia that they will almost certainly not be able to uphold, but they may nonetheless be very destabilizing to the relationship with China, invite crises, and convince the rest of the world that the United States is an unreliable partner.feedback

The power of international law is primarily reputational and measured in terms of legitimacy. My speculation would be that China has basically calculated that it will take some near-term, rather assertive actions in the South China Sea, and pay short-term reputation costs in exchange for what it believes to be longer-term strategic gains.feedback

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